'savage' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'savage' with 5 example sentences.
- savage adjective
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: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
: wild and menacing
: without civilizing influences
: marked by extreme and violent energy
- savage noun
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: a member of an uncivilized people
: a cruelly rapacious person
- savage verb
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: attack brutally and fiercely
: criticize harshly or violently
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
There are still some savage tribes on that island.
He demanded that the savage dog be kept tied up.
Savages fear the appearance of a fierce wild beast.
The savage robbed me of my precious jewels and ran away.